Organizing Insurgency

Immanuel Ness is Professor of Political Science at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York and Senior Research Associate at the University of Johannesburg. He is the author and editor of many books, including Southern Insurgency: The Coming of the Global Working Class (Pluto, 2015) and Urban Revolt: State Power and the Rise of People's Movements in the Global South (Haymarket, 2017).

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Series Preface

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Forging a New Global Workers’ Movement 1

PART I - THEORIES AND CONCEPTS OF LABOUR IN THE GLOBAL SOUTH

1. The Labour Atlas: The Southern Working Class Holding Up the World

2. Workers’ Movements in the South: Inequality, Poverty, and Enduring Relevance of Rural Proletariat and Informal Sector Workers

PART II - CASE STUDIES: RURAL AND INFORMAL LABOUR STRUGGLES

3. Primitive Steel Manufacturing for the Global Consumer Market: Capital, Super-exploitation, and Surplus Value in Wazirpur, India

4. The Enduring System of Global Agricultural Commodity Production and First World Commodity Extraction: The Case of Mindanao, the Philippines

5. Global Capitalism: Corporate Restructuring, Labour Brokering, and Working-class Mobilization in South Africa

6. Conclusion: Labour Struggles and Political Organization

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Index